Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

did not love her. There are at least three ways of
looking at this disclaimer. One, perhaps he closed
that door after Hermione and did not open it up
again until he encountered the supermodel Iman (his
second wife) in the early nineties; two, perhaps his
mother and father’s lack of demonstration toward
one another made him wary of any effusion or
confirmation of emotions; or three, maybe he actually
did love her but it simply wasn’t hip to say so. “The
truth of the matter is that later it became obvious that
he may have said what he thought sounded cool, but
that may not have been what he felt, because he
acted like a jilted lover [years later] when I left him,”
says Angie. According to her, she took to saying “In
your ear” instead of “I love you” as a term of
endearment. While she wanted some form of
exclusivity, and was very nearly having it, she was
aware that times were changing, as were the notions
of cohabitation and monogamy. “While I was in love
with David and ready to share him with anyone he
nominated, I still wanted to hold that privileged and
treasured place as his wife,” she writes in Free
Spirit. “I was prepared to bow to convention that
much. I wish now I had subscribed to convention
more because it would take its natural revenge.”
In order for Angie to remain in England at length,
and, in the long run, for Bowie to be able to stay in
America, it was decided that they would have a civil
ceremony and marry as a matter of course. “If it
hadn’t been for that we probably wouldn’t have
gotten married,” Bowie told journalist George